Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894), born at Laneside, Lancashire, was an artist and art critic who settled in France in 1861. He founded the art periodical The Portfolio in 1869 and edited it until his death.

He is best remembered for Etching and Etchers (1868) and The Intellectual Life (1873); his early verse appeared in The Isles of Loch Awe. The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895 (1895).